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Mark [Andressen] was more popular than me at the time … He was like Beyoncé, I was Kelly Rowlings

Ben Horowitz

A key thing in being a leader is you’ve got to pause yourself.
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Keys Leader Management
As a company grows, communication becomes its biggest challenge.
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Challenges Communication Company
The bigger you get, the harder this gets because the more aggressive the people working for you are.
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Bigger Management People
Mark [Andressen] was more popular than me at the time … He was like Beyoncé, I was Kelly Rowlings
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Beyonce Mark More Popular Time
When you’re making a critical decision, you have to understand how it’s going to be interpreted from all points of view. Not just your point of view, not just the person you’re talking to, but the people that aren’t in the room. Everybody else.
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Critical Decisions Talking Views
A manager can’t act like a role model. They need to BE a role model.
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Manager Models Needs Role
Every time you make the hard, correct decision you become a bit more courageous, and every time you make the easy, wrong decision you become a bit more cowardly. If you are CEO, these choices will lead to a courageous or cowardly company.
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Choice Courageous Decision
Volatility and length, that’s the value on an option. 10 years on a startup stock, that’s a big valuable thing.
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Length Management Years
One of the great things about building a tech company is the amazing people that you can hire.
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Building Great People Things
Groupon looked like a very high valuation, but any investment in a great company at any stage is almost always a good investment.
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Great Company Investment Stage
Here’s where we are and here’s what I didn’t recognize about us and about you when I made the decision, and now it is what it is.
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About Decision Made Now Recognize
Planning is valuable, tho the plan is usually useless.
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Planning Useless Valuable
The person they’re working with, is going to be the person they’ll know more. So if that person leaves, they’re going to go – well, should have I left too? What did they get and how does that compare to my deal.
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Company Deal Leaves Management
The right answer on raises is you have to be formal. You have to be formal to save your own culture.
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Answer Culture Management
You don’t need every investor to believe that you can succeed. You only need one.
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Believe Inspiration Needs
These decisions intensify when you run a company, because the consequences get magnified 1,000 fold. As in life, the excuses for CEOs making the wrong choice are always plentiful.
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Choice Consequences Life Magnified Plentiful Wrong

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